Category: Development Report (发展报道)

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new study shows that lead-based paint remains a worldwide threat to public health. Paint containing lead is a major cause of…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In two thousand three, the government of Kenya established a program of free primary education for all children. But there are not…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries. The treadle pump…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Two new discoveries could offer easier ways to identify infectious diseases in developing countries. The first involves sheep. Researchers have found that…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report: In two thousand five, Tanya Pinto was a successful young businesswoman in Dallas, Texas. But she decided to take three months off…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some of the longest-lasting effects of colonization can be found in the health of the native people who were colonized. Indigenous and…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Amizade means friendship in Portuguese. It is also the name of a service organization in the United States that places volunteers in…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In Senegal, some people receive medical coverage from large employers. Some buy their own insurance. But most Senegalese are uninsured, especially the…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley. In those days,…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some American students from Florida are bringing the business of beekeeping to farmers in a community in Ghana. The program, called the…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Compost is a dark, rich material added to soil to improve it. Compost is produced when bacteria and fungi break down organic…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, looks like an ancient castle. The bottom floor was once a bathhouse. Today, it houses…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat , Afghanistan, she saw many women suffer. They had no education and little or…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new report estimates the cost of forced labor. Millions of workers worldwide are denied more than twenty billion dollars a year…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In recent years, rebel groups in northern Uganda have often kidnapped children. They use boys as soldiers and girls as sex slaves.…